Both Willamette Week and the Oregonian are reporting that Mayor-elect (for a few more hours) Hales has asked Tom Miller for his resignation as PBOT director, effective with budget submissions in early February.

I’ve been reading Jewel Lansing’s “Multnomah”, a history of Multnomah County, and found a few juicy tidbits of early road history: A Multnomah Deputy Sheriff, Peter Rexford, proposed painting a yellow line down the middle of the Columbia River Highway, to make it safer – a practice that gained some popularity. The first Interstate Bridge…

Update: 5/29/12 For those who couldn’t get in the room, a video of the presentation is now available from the good folks at Crank My Chain: http://www.crankmychain.com/enrique-penalosa/planning-cities-for-people-an-international-perspective-video_5ee3f1c62.html Original Post: 5/1/12 Several local organizations have partnered to bring urban transportation rock star Enrique Peñalosa to Portland. Tickets are free, but limited. The only way to get…

This guest post is by Michael Andersen, editor of Portland Afoot, PDX’s 10-minute newsmagazine about buses, bikes & low-car life. Thanks to the heroic efforts of a handful of volunteers for Bike Walk Vote, there’s been quite a bit of attention in this election season to local candidates’ positions on bicycling and walking. But the…

Bike Walk Vote, a local political action committee focused on active transportation, has an event coming up this Wednesday night called 4/4 Forward: Candidate Meet-Up & Campaign Kick-Off Party. The party will take place 7-9pm on April 4th at Crank Bicycles (2725 SE Ash St in Portland) and will be a chance for the public…